{"id":498621,"date":"2026-02-23T10:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/498621\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:07:08","slug":"urban-landscapes-feature-in-new-shaun-morris-exhibition-in-coventry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/498621\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban landscapes feature in new Shaun Morris exhibition in Coventry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said witnessing its deindustrialisation during the 70s and 80s, where factories disappeared, sites were abandoned and landscapes left unoccupied informed his work. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Across the exhibition are scenes that are often passed through rather than visited as destinations. Many are depicted at night, illuminated by streetlights or the glow from nearby buildings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These are the places I know,&#8221; Morris said. &#8220;Things look so different at night, it&#8217;s a different experience and I like the quietness, when things look more uncanny.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From his nocturnal photographs, he painted a series of five parked post office vans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of the featured works, A Minor Place (2016), shows stacks of crates positioned beneath a motorway flyover against a dark sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said witnessing its deindustrialisation during the 70s and 80s, where factories disappeared, sites were abandoned and landscapes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-498621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}